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Essentials in Church History: A History of the Church from the Birth of Joseph Smith to the Present Time (1922), with Introductory Chapters on the Antiquity of the Gospel and the "Falling Away"Smith, Joseph Fielding

History

Essentials in Church History: A History of the Church from the Birth of Joseph Smith to the Present Time (1922), with Introductory Chapters on the Antiquity of the Gospel and the "Falling Away"

Name: Essentials in Church History: A History of the Church from the Birth of Joseph Smith to the Present Time (1922), with Introductory Chapters on the Antiquity of the Gospel and the "Falling Away"
Author: Smith, Joseph Fielding

Smith, Joseph Fielding

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- History

President Sidney Rigdon arrived in Quincy, Illinois, after his release
from prison, in March, 1839, and was at that time very zealous for the
punishment of Missouri for the violation of the constitutional rights
of the Saints while in that state. He devised a plan, on an elaborate
scale, for the impeachment of Missouri before the other states and the
general government. He proposed to have the governors of the several
states present before their respective legislative bodies the matter of
Missouri's abdication of republican government, and at the same time
have presented to the President of the United States and Congress a
petition for redress of the wrongs inflicted upon the Saints. Governor
Carlin of Illinois encouraged him in this desire and promised to aid in
the work. Governor Robert Lucas of Iowa also lent some assistance to
the plan. The latter issued letters of introduction to President Martin
Van Buren and Governor Shannon of Ohio, conveying the information that
President Rigdon expected to visit Washington as the representative of
the "Mormon" people to seek an investigation into the causes for the
expulsion of the Saints from Missouri. However, nothing came of this
rather impractical plan.

The Prophet's Appeal to the People

About this same time (April, 1839) the Prophet made an appeal to the
citizens of the United States in the following language:

    "I ask the citizens of this Republic whether such a state of things
    is to be suffered to pass unnoticed, and the hearts of widows,
    orphans, and patriots to be broken, and their wrongs left without
    redress? No! I invoke the genius of our Constitution. I appeal
    to the patriotism of Americans to stop this unlawful and unholy
    procedure; and pray that God may defend this nation from the
    dreadful effects of such outrages.

    "Is there no virtue in the body politic? Will not the people rise
    up in their majesty, and with that promptitude and zeal which are
    so characteristic of them, discountenance such proceedings, by
    bringing the offenders to that punishment which they so richly
    deserve, and save the nation from that disgrace and ultimate ruin,
    which otherwise must inevitably fall upon it?"[2]

A Delegation Appointed to Visit Washington

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History

Essentials in Church History: A History of the Church from the Birth of Joseph Smith to the Present Time (1922), with Introductory Chapters on the Antiquity of the Gospel and the "Falling Away"

Smith, Joseph Fielding

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- History

President Sidney Rigdon arrived in Quincy, Illinois, after his release
from prison, in March, 1839, and was at that time very zealous for the
punishment of Missouri for the violation of the constitutional rights
of the Saints while in that state. He devised a plan, on an elaborate
scale, for the impeachment of Missouri before the other states and the
general government. He proposed to have the governors of the several
states present before their respective legislative bodies the matter of
Missouri's abdication of republican government, and at the same time
have presented to the President of the United States and Congress a
petition for redress of the wrongs inflicted upon the Saints. Governor
Carlin of Illinois encouraged him in this desire and promised to aid in
the work. Governor Robert Lucas of Iowa also lent some assistance to
the plan. The latter issued letters of introduction to President Martin
Van Buren and Governor Shannon of Ohio, conveying the information that
President Rigdon expected to visit Washington as the representative of
the "Mormon" people to seek an investigation into the causes for the
expulsion of the Saints from Missouri. However, nothing came of this
rather impractical plan.

The Prophet's Appeal to the People

About this same time (April, 1839) the Prophet made an appeal to the
citizens of the United States in the following language:

    "I ask the citizens of this Republic whether such a state of things
    is to be suffered to pass unnoticed, and the hearts of widows,
    orphans, and patriots to be broken, and their wrongs left without
    redress? No! I invoke the genius of our Constitution. I appeal
    to the patriotism of Americans to stop this unlawful and unholy
    procedure; and pray that God may defend this nation from the
    dreadful effects of such outrages.

    "Is there no virtue in the body politic? Will not the people rise
    up in their majesty, and with that promptitude and zeal which are
    so characteristic of them, discountenance such proceedings, by
    bringing the offenders to that punishment which they so richly
    deserve, and save the nation from that disgrace and ultimate ruin,
    which otherwise must inevitably fall upon it?"[2]

A Delegation Appointed to Visit Washington

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Essentials in Church History: A History of the Church from the Birth of Joseph Smith to the Present Time (1922), with Introductory Chapters on the Antiquity of the Gospel and the "Falling Away"

Essentials in Church History: A History of the Church from the Birth of Joseph Smith to the Present Time (1922), with Introductory Chapters on the Antiquity of the Gospel and the "Falling Away"

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